London Recovery Board

Leonie Cooper: The Recovery Board has just one representative from the environmental sector. How will you as co-Chair ensure that environmental improvements are central to the Board’s decisions?

The Mayor: Environment is one of 6 cross-cutting principles that the Recovery Board endorsed at its first meeting on 4 June to be embedded across the whole recovery programme. My policy teams are working closely with the Co-Chairs of the Economic and Social Recovery workstrands, London Councils and Borough officers and environmental stakeholders to ensure that a green recovery is central to a Green New Deal that is currently being developed to address the challenges arising from the COVID pandemic - and included in all other draft missions. We will work with environmental advisory bodies who will provide a constructive challenge to our approach.